A Retrospective: 25th Anniversary of the International Religious Freedom Act

This publication is a retrospective of the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA), landmark legislation signed into law in the fall of 1998 that has been a driver of considerable human rights initiatives during the past 25 years. In it, participants reflect on more than two decades of collaborative efforts to integrate international religious freedom (IRF) with U.S. foreign policy. It is a historical memory of the process of creating a law whose aim was to promote and protect religious freedom for all people, in all nations, of all faiths or no faith at all.